John Deigh

Emotions, Values, and the Law

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Produktbeschreibung

These essays ask questions about the nature of emotions and the place of voluntary action in our understanding of common phenomena of our moral and political lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780199843954
• ISBN-10: 0199843953
• Artikelnr.: 33864019

Autorenporträt

John Deigh is Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illionis at Chicago. He is the author of The Sources of Moral Agency: Essays in Moral Psychology and Freudian Theory. He is the editor of Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Provenance and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Emotions: The Legacy of James and Freud
2. Primitive Emotions
3. Cognitivism and the Theory of Emotion
4. Emotions and Values
5. The Politics of Disgust and Shame
6. Emotions and the Authority of Law: Variations on Themes from Bentham and Austin
7. All Kinds of Guilt
8. Promises under Fire
9. Moral Agency and Criminal Insanity
10. Liberalism and Freedom